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“The Death of Socrates”: A. E. Housman's First Published Poem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2021

William White
William White*
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Wayne University
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PMLA , Volume 68 , Issue 4-Part1 , September 1953 , pp. 913 - 916
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1953

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References

1 John Carter and John Sparrow, A. E. Howman: An Annotated Hand-List (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952), p. 51; see also p. 11.

2 First in Laurence Housman, “Memories of A. E. Housman,” John O' London's Weekly,XXXVI (9 Oct 1936), 38; and reprinted in his A E. H. (London Jonathan Cape, 1937), p. 30 (American title, My Brother, A. E. Housman [New York: Scribner's, 1938]).

3 “Boyhood,” Alfred Edward Housman: Recollections (Bromsgrove: Bromsgrove School, 1936), pp. 17-18 (American ed., New York: Henry Holt, 1937, p. 19). The lines reprinted here and in Laurence Housman's A.E.H. contain slight variations.

4 See Mrs. Symons' Introd, to Grant Richards, Housman: 1897-1936 (London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1941; New York, 1942), p. xii; and Housman's answer to M. Maurice Pol let's questionnaire, ibid., p. 270, first printed in Etudes, Angloises, 1 (Sept. 1937). 403.

5 A. E. HousmanA Shack (New York: Macmillan; Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1936), p. 3.

6 Pref. to The Poetical Works of Rupert Brooke (London: Faber and Faber, 1946), p. 7.